Word: injuneers
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...knowledge that Indian eyes were always on him. But Bingham's masterpieces are the superbly drawn scenes of settled frontier life, electioneering, shooting competitions and riverboat life. Painted in the 1840s and 1850s, they already point to the days when Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn will think of Injun Joe as an outcast, when the streets will be lined with whitewashed fences...
...Night of the Hunter has some of the tension of Marie Belloc Lowndes' famed story of a psychopathic killer, The Lodger, plus a sequence of runaway river life that recalls the Injun Joe passages of Mark Twain. Davis Grubb, 34, was himself born in Moundsville, W. Va., and named after a grandfather who captained a steamboat on the Ohio. Next for Author Grubb's story: a film version by Producer Paul Gregory (Don Juan in Hell, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), with Charles Laughton directing...
...Manuscript. Author Wecter brings to life the real models of dozens of people and incidents in Mark Twain's books. Huck Finn was Tom Blankenship, the happy, shiftless son of a ne'er-do-well drunk. Sid Sawyer was modeled after Sam's own brother Henry. "Injun Joe," sometimes known as "Injun Aleck," was a drifter from Oklahoma who, according to rumor, had once "somehow lost his interest" in his mother, and hanged her. There really was a cave downriver from Hannibal, too, and Sam himself was once lost in it with a young lady...
...producers of this picture were especially fortunate in getting Chief Thundercloud to head their Injun band. This leather-faced gentleman reveals all the majesty of the old Indian chieftains, and is excellent except for his Chinese accent. Also noteworthy are the amazing number of people picked off while on horseback...
...familiar position-on his uppers in a strange city. The city was Detroit where, desperately answering a blind ad, he found himself a door-to-door salesman of cemetery lots. By drawing heavily on his peculiar assets-the husky Godfrey voice-with-a-personality and the honest-Injun Godfrey face-he made $10,000 in five months. Three months later he had lost it all as the star and backer of a vaudeville troupe that careened from Chicago to Los Angeles and expired among the orange groves...